MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> I can't call them lazy for it takes effort to make that move and take the risks.
> Starting over within a new country isn't easy if one doesn't have the right
> connections and has to start from scratch. It would be dumb to state immigrants are
> lazy just as all anti-immigrant folks are a bunch of uneducated rednecks.
>
> Besides, migrant labor is a not-so-big secret: Very low-paying jobs full of tedious
> tasks such as cleaning hotel rooms, landscaping, or picking fields will be filled by
> those who don't have higher skills or credentials for better work. And did I mention
> that it's cheap labor?
>
> It's one thing for over-exaggerating anti-immigrant folks to state that "They" are
> taking ALL the jobs. It's another thing to see what those jobs in question actually
> are.
>
> If only a person would just ask, "So tell me about yourself." and learn about the
> individuals who choose to leave a country to work, maybe even possibly live, within
> another one. But that would kill a few stereotypes right there, eh?
>
> --Bekki

I can't argue that. It takes guts to left family (or any support) to pursue a better life, with the promised help of some relatives waiting at the end of a lone road they should travel on their own. So far I have one dead relative left in the dessert by a "coyote" while trying to cross the border. I have also some relatives who (supposedly) lived well during their stance in USA while sending money to their families. However they return with either nothing or at least only enough money to buy a taxi or to put a really small convenience store here. Something they could have achieved in their own land with less risks and more support from known people. I call them lazies because they don't care about studying or prepare themselves for other jobs they could earn more money. They simply left unprepared for doing whatever job they could have done here as well. Some of them even return with the same English level as when they left: zero.

The anti-immigrant people is not different. They blame others for their own faults, in this case the government and immigrants. If their health care plan is inefficient, if their children couldn't enter public school, if they're robbed, if they can't find a job, etc. Everything is everyone's fault except themselves (or people like themselves). Some comments here make me believe they also justify war "because is natural" to invade other territories to gather resources. Talking about primitive civilization methods for established lands.

However and just as Hizzout said, you won't find better humble and hard working labor from any other. Most of them are scouts on unknown lands willing to prepare a way to bring their families too if they succeed. An immigrant knows poverty and will gladly accept any job they can do without hesitation. A legal migrant will not, neither an anti-immigrant. I should also point these illegal immigrants don't come exactly from the big cities but small populations ("pueblos"), so they usually have knowledge about farming, masonry and cattle raising.